Neil Gaiman made a video game, and it’s coming out in July

Beep! Boop! Waka waka waka! Video games sure have come a long way since the days of Pong and Pac-Man. No longer a pastime reserved exclusively for the super-wealthy, now anyone with several hundred dollars to spare can join the gaming craze. Now, with the public’s increased awareness of the world of video games, even big-name creators from other mediums are making games of their own. Legendary director Steven Spielberg signed off on a game based on his film E.T., and even popular costumed vigilante Batman has translated his success in comics and movies to a video game career.

The latest well-known creator to jump on the video game bandwagon is Sandman writer Neil Gaiman. As Gameological reported last year, Gaiman teamed up with a small studio called The Odd Gentlemen—developers of The Misadventures Of P.B. Winterbottom—to make Wayward Manor, a game about a ghost trying to kick a family out of his New England mansion. In a clever twist on traditional human-ghost prejudices, players will control the ghost and use his supernatural powers to solve puzzles and frighten the family into leaving. This being a Neil Gaiman thing, Wayward Manor will almost certainly be full of clever humor and spookiness, and it might even feature a tall, lanky guy with scraggly black hair.